TLDR: Just to emphasize again because people seem to be misunderstanding, we will be addressing windows 10 issues for both OBS versions (yes, both) as soon as we're able. It is a top priority before our next patches, but please just don't upgrade to Windows 10 right away if you have a critical streaming setup. We'll let everyone know when we've done thorough testing.
With Windows 10 coming out very soon, we'd like to provide some information about Windows 10 and OBS compatibility.
As a standard Windows application, OBS should run fine on Windows 10 without any issues in the core program.
However, OBS makes heavy use of advanced hardware features, particularly on your GPU such as texture sharing and hardware encoding. Windows 10 will come with new drivers for your hardware, including your GPU. We have had reports of some features such as hardware encoding (NVENC, Intel QuickSync Video) not functioning correctly on Windows 10. As the drivers are new and less mature than drivers for Windows 7 and 8, you may experience issues with things like Game Capture, Monitor Capture and NVENC / QSV.
Many of the OBS developers are not currently using Windows 10, so it is not as well tested as on Windows 7 and 8. Also many plugins have not been tested under Windows 10, so if you rely on things like CLR Browser or other 3rd party plugins, there is no guarantee they will function perfectly.
In short, OBS should work fine on Windows 10. In reality, there will likely be a few issues due to new drivers and a new OS, and we can't really predict what kind of issues there will be on your hardware and scene / source setup.
You could also consider trying OBS Multiplatform test build, as this is where all new development is focused, and it has increased compatibility with multi-GPU setups (such as laptops).
With Windows 10 coming out very soon, we'd like to provide some information about Windows 10 and OBS compatibility.
As a standard Windows application, OBS should run fine on Windows 10 without any issues in the core program.
However, OBS makes heavy use of advanced hardware features, particularly on your GPU such as texture sharing and hardware encoding. Windows 10 will come with new drivers for your hardware, including your GPU. We have had reports of some features such as hardware encoding (NVENC, Intel QuickSync Video) not functioning correctly on Windows 10. As the drivers are new and less mature than drivers for Windows 7 and 8, you may experience issues with things like Game Capture, Monitor Capture and NVENC / QSV.
Many of the OBS developers are not currently using Windows 10, so it is not as well tested as on Windows 7 and 8. Also many plugins have not been tested under Windows 10, so if you rely on things like CLR Browser or other 3rd party plugins, there is no guarantee they will function perfectly.
In short, OBS should work fine on Windows 10. In reality, there will likely be a few issues due to new drivers and a new OS, and we can't really predict what kind of issues there will be on your hardware and scene / source setup.
You could also consider trying OBS Multiplatform test build, as this is where all new development is focused, and it has increased compatibility with multi-GPU setups (such as laptops).
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